Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham